Papa’s Holiday Apple Pie Recipe

Spiced Beer & Apple Pie À La Mode

Is It A Drink Or A Dessert? It’s Whatever You Want It To Be!

CAPSULE REPORT: If you like to drink beer and you like to eat dessert, this may be the recipe for you. A crustless apple pie à la mode is topped with foam made from holiday spiced apple beer—a novel dessert. Can you enjoy it with a spiced beer chaser? Of course!

Founded in 1867, the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company is the seventh-oldest brewery in the U.S. still in operation, and one of the oldest businesses in Wisconsin. Their seasonal brew now on shelves, Apple Spice Beer, inspired Las Vegas-based champion mixologist Tobin Ellis to create Papa’s Holiday Apple Pie. An apple pie dessert with a beer foam topper, it’s a unique recipe for holiday entertaining.

If you can’t find Jacob Leinenkugel’s Apple Spice Beer or a similar product, substitute a fruit beer. For more information about Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company and its beers, visit Leinie.com.

Ingredients & Equipment

Apple pie filling

Spiced beer, apple beer or other
fruit beer

Chocolate-covered graham crackers

Regular graham crackers

Egg whites

Vanilla ice cream

Glass beer steins

Whipped cream canister

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The recipe below makes one large dessert—it fills a beer stein. While it’s fun to serve a beer-topped dessert in a stein, you can make smaller portions in glass dishes or glass teacups and still allow guests to enjoy the visual of the layered ingredients.

As always, use the best ingredients you can buy: the finest graham crackers, ice cream, and especially, apple pie filling will elevate the quality of your dessert from chain restaurant to fine restaurant.

Part 1: Apple Pie

3 ounces apple pie filling (go for a better brand)

2-3 scoops vanilla ice cream

1 crushed graham cracker

Build in layers in a chilled beer mug

Part 2: Spiced Apple Foam

6 ounces Leinenkugel’s Apple Spice Beer (or other fruit beer)

4 ounces egg whites

Charge ingredients in a whipped cream canister

Shake and top the assembled “apple pie” with the foam

Garnish with cinnamon sugar and a chocolate-covered graham cracker
or cinnamon stick